[threeseed]

You keep talking about people as if you they are one homogenous block that you deeply understand and represent.

Most people really couldn't care less about SpaceX, Tesla or the future of Twitter. And they definitely wouldn't put Musk at the pinnacle of cultural relevance.

It's a minority of the population that is on sites like this that care. And for many of us there is a much more discerning and skeptical attitude towards Musk and his antics.

[planetsprite]

He has 111 million followers on twitter. He isn't some niche tech celebrity.

[brewdad]

Half of them bots. As he discovered after bidding for ownership.

[bojo]

0.01% of the world population

[6502nerdface]

Well... by comparison the sitting president of the United States peaked at only ~89 million followers [1].

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/trump-twitter-ban-follo...

[threeseed]

You do understand that not everyone uses Twitter.

37% of the world doesn't even have internet.

[tomjakubowski]

Not that they're all 1:1 with real people but: 111 million is 1.4% of the world's population (~8B)

[hackernewds]

And by his measure far far less since most are bots.